Dell Inspiron 14 7400 7415 2-in-1 Review: High performance on a budget

[Redaktion]

Dell's latest Inspiron convertible offers an experience that's close to the XPS 2-in-1 or Latitude 2-in-1 while costing hundreds of dollars less. There are some catches, of course, but they don't detract all that much from the core experience.

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[Dorby]

Wrong comparison. Dell's Inspiron 7000 series is Mid-range, so you should be comparing to HP Envy, Lenovo 700 and Asus ZenBook series.

The Pavilion, Flex/Ideapad 500 and VivoBook are competing with the Low-end Inspiron 3000 and 5000 series.

Bearing that in mind this is significantly worse convertible ultrabook than any competition out there.

[NikoB]

It's just a shame to what Dell went down in 2021 with the once legendary 7xxx series. The screen is shameful in terms of color reproduction (which in principle was not in the series before) and contrast, and this is bundled with the outdated Zen2 (5700U), not Zen3 (5850U Pro)!

A shameful card reader. Braking, problematic and outdated wi-fi from Intel (ax210 c 6E has been sold at retail for a long time). And then there is clearly a problem with the reception / transmission of the signal.

The performance of the old Zen2 + 5700U (= 4800U) is clearly artificially understated by 15-20%, just like in HP's business G series. Those. in speed it no longer corresponds to 4800U, but to 5500U (= 4600U).

Thanks at least to the American company for supplying 2 slots, and not as the Chinese Lenovo solves the pitiful 16GB in the "Pro" series with the 5800H monster, which is now being installed in smartphones. Here at least the memory can be easily expanded to 64GB.

Most of all, the noise is surprising - the processor is already slowed down at the factory by at least 15% of the real performance of the 5700U (= 4800U), where does this noise come from? Dell has a clear flaw with the cooling system.

There is enough space on the sides for another usb-a and 2x usb-c ...

In general, with such a shameful screen, his desire to buy already disappears even for 850 euros ...

PS,
What do idiots marketers of all companies think about setting the shameful 45-46% NTSC, if with such screens you can't even look at your own photos or work colleagues from a banal smartphone in full color?

Are the marketers of all companies color blind? Maybe it's time to fire these painful ones?

[jelly]

Can someone explain to me how these reviews are done, or how the titles of the reviews are given?
The title says "high performance" and then in the verdict the first Con is "CPU performance is slightly below average". This is not the only example. I've seen many reviews with high grades while at the same time the cons overweight the pros.
What's up with this?

[NikoB]

Can someone explain to me how these reviews are done, or how the titles of the reviews are given?
The title says "high performance" and then in the verdict the first Con is "CPU performance is slightly below average". This is not the only example. I've seen many reviews with high grades while at the same time the cons overweight the pros.
What's up with this?

The reviewers of this site generally have a strange rating and scoring system. There is no single absolute scale of points (less points, worse, more means definitely better). All points are set at random, as a particular reviewer thinks. There is no problem, where an experienced person like me sees specific numbers (if they are of course true, and not bought by the manufacturer), there you can evaluate it yourself and I do not care, like experts, on the points set. But in the case, for example. the strength of the case or noise, where there are no exact measurement methods, points make the choice impossible. And think as you like here until you take the model in your hands and turn it over. And then what is the point of the review?

They practically do not check video ports (the real version of the protocol, and not what marketers write (more often lie), bandwidth, and it can be underestimated by installing a cheap interface module). They do not check USB ports for current limits, although almost all manufacturers do not comply with the 3.0 and higher current standards - where the minimum recoil current should be 0.9A, and they sell junk with 0.45A maximum outside the "reinforced" ports with a special icon.

They do not check memory latency (although AMD here traditionally drains Intel with a bang, which is easy to check in the same AIDA64).

They do not always indicate clearly what the real drawdown of the notebook's performance will be when switching it from AC to battery. This is extremely important.

They do not test batteries for random battery drops under load, although in some series (like Dell) this is almost the norm.